1 dust storm, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tucson, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 30, 1:48 PM MST, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 148 PM MST WED AUG 30 2006 .SYNOPSIS...A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE TO THE EAST AND A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE ALONG THE WEST COAST WILL BRING A SOUTHERLY FLOW THIS WEEK. THIS WILL RESULT IN AN INCREASE IN MOISTURE ACROSS SOUTHEAST ARIZONA AND A CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. && .DISCUSSION...DEFINITELY MORE MOISTURE ACROSS SOUTHERN ARIZONA THIS AFTERNOON. THE 12Z KTUS SOUNDING SHOWS A PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUE OF 1.31 INCHES WHICH IS UP ABOUT A QUARTER OF AN INCH FROM YESTERDAY MORNING. IN ADDITION...GOES PW IMAGERY SHOWS VALUES IN EXCESS OF 1.5 INCHES OVER THE WESTERN DESERTS WITH LESSER VALUES TO THE EAST...BUT STILL AROUND THE 1 INCH MARK. THE SOUNDING ALSO SHOWS SOME COOLING FROM AROUND 850-650MB AND ALSO FROM 600-525MB WHICH SHOULD RESULT IN STEEPER LAPSE RATES THIS AFTERNOON. RADAR CURRENTLY DETECTING ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY FROM SOUTH OF TUCSON AND WESTWARD TO NEAR AJO. ADJUSTED THE POP GRIDS TO ACCOUNT FOR A BIT MORE ACTIVITY IN THIS AREA FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MODELS INDICATE THAT WE WILL REMAIN IN A MOIST REGIME AS HIGH PRESSURE TO THE SOUTH AND EAST OF ARIZONA WILL CONTINUE TO TRANSPORT MOISTURE NORTHWARD. MODELS DIFFER TO SOME DEGREE WITH REGARD TO THE PATH OF HURRICANE JOHN...BUT THE OFFICIAL FORECAST TRACK ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER TAKES THE STORM JUST SOUTH OF THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TIP OF THE BAJA PENINSULA DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS LATE FRIDAY AND EARLY SATURDAY. THEREAFTER HURRICANE JOHN SHOULD TAKE ON A MORE WESTERLY TRACK INTO THE PACIFIC. OBVIOUSLY THE FORECAST FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS WILL DEPEND HIGHLY ON THE PATH THAT JOHN TAKES. THE FARTHER NORTH THE PATH THE BETTER CHANCE THAT MOISTURE ASSOCIATED WITH THE SYSTEM WILL PUSH NORTHWARD AND POSSIBLY RESULT IN HIGHER RAIN CHANCES FOR THIS WEEKEND. HOWEVER...BASED ON THE OFFICIAL FORECAST TRACK MY FORECAST JUST KEEPS SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS GOING EACH DAY. THIS WILL BE REEVALUATED EACH SHIFT FOR POSSIBLE ADJUSTMENTS TO THE POP FORECAST BASED ON LATER FORECAST TRACKS FROM THE HURRICANE CENTER. AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPS WILL REMAIN IN THE MID TO UPPER 90S THROUGH THE ENTIRE FORECAST PERIOD WHICH IS RIGHT AROUND NORMAL FOR LATE AUGUST AND EARLY SEPTEMBER. && .AVIATION...TAFS AND TWEBS ADEQUATELY COVER ALL SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AT KTUS. && .TWC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && MOLLERE WEATHER.GOV/TUCSON
1 dust storm. Local standard time, as filed.
A trained spotter in the City of Green Valley reported that visibility was down to one quarter mile (1/4 mile) due to a dust storm pushing through the area.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arizona in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, August 2006
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5530393.